Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 14
Shortly afterwards, at the harvest festival, the owner released the Ox from his yoke, but bound the Heifer with cords and led him away to the altar to be slain in honour of the occasion.
Who acts: owner · What happens: release, lead away, slay, honour · To what, where: Ox, harvest festival, owner, altar, honour, occasion
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (owner), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 2 afterwards | advmod |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 11 released | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 afterwards | punct |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 festival | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 festival | det |
| 6 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 festival | compound |
| 7 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 released | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 festival | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 owner | det |
| 10 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 released | nsubj |
| 11 | released | release | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Ox | det |
| 13 | Ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 released | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 yoke | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 yoke | nmod:poss |
| 16 | yoke | yoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 released | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Heifer | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 Heifer | cc |
| 19 | bound | bound | ADP | _ | 21 Heifer | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Heifer | det |
| 21 | Heifer | Heifer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 released | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 cords | case |
| 23 | cords | cord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Heifer | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 led | cc |
| 25 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 released | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 led | obj |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 led | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 altar | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 altar | det |
| 30 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 led | obl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 slain | mark |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 slain | aux:pass |
| 33 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 altar | acl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 honour | case |
| 35 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 slain | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 occasion | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 occasion | det |
| 38 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 honour | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 released | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | release | past | the owner | the Ox | the harvest festival | from owner's yoke; bound the Heifer with cords; afterwards property | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer ox=Source | ||
| 2 | lead away | past | the owner not said here | owner | the altar | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to altar=Destination | ||
| 3 | slay | to-infinitive · passive | the owner not said here | honour of the occasion | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 4 | honour | the occasion | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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